Projects
The effectiveness of a blended care program for the discontinuation of benzodiazepines use for sleeping problems in primary care: a clustered randomized trial KU Leuven
There is a well-known problem of overuse of sleeping pills (benzodiazepines) in the Belgian population and a large proportion of people taking sleeping pills are doing so on an daily basis. The high consumption of sleeping pills is problematic as it is associated with potentially serious medical complications as well as a high social cost (costs related to the use of health care services, productivity losses, premature mortality and ...
The development, implementation and evaluation of a blended care program for care-leavers in transition to adulthood KU Leuven
International research shows that may young people leaving out-of-home care struggle with the transition to adulthood and experience continuing disadvantage and social exclusion (Hartwell, Fisher & Davis, 2010, van Gypen et al., 2017; Brännstorm et al. 2017; Cameron et al. 2018). An international meta-analysis of Heerde et al. (2016) states that transitional programs can be valuable to support this young care leavers, but more detailed ...
m-Path: An experience sampling based tool for blended care KU Leuven
Improving the user experience of the innovative blended care platform m-Path KU Leuven
Mental health problems cause an enormous burden on individuals and society. Obtaining precise insight into these problems and how they occur in an individual’s daily life are crucial for diagnosis and treatment. The Experience Sampling Method (ESM) allows to capture and quantify people’s thoughts, feelings and behavior as they unfold in daily life. As such, ESM holds great promise to inform and improve psychotherapeutic treatment. However, ...
Factors Contributing to Success in Blended Learning - The Case of Language Teaching and Training in Academic and Professional Contexts. University of Antwerp
Factors Contributing to Success in Blended Learning - The Case of Language Teaching and Training in Academic and Professional Contexts; University of Antwerp
Negotiating Landed Commons and their Governance: The Case of Slow Paths in Flanders KU Leuven
This PhD research reveals the detrimental social and ecological aspects of privatisation, fragmentation and encroachment of urban and rural spaces in Flanders. It sets out to explore these aspects at the intersection of spatial planning, ownership regimes and land use rights. It aims to understand how the development of community-based shared land use patterns (Commons) in Flanders help to transcend the ubiquitous private-public divide in ...
Powerful digital learning opportunities for everyone. Towards a guideline for blended education for low-literate and NT2 students in Flemish adult education. KU Leuven
Combined learning or blended learning offers potential benefits for adult learners. Blended education makes it possible to learn independent of time and place and to work on a more customized basis. For adult learners, who often have other obligations, and for whom a course needs to match their needs and requirements as closely as possible, blended education can lower the threshold to attend a course. However, these benefits can only be ...
Blended CBT sleep intervention to improve sleep, ADHD symptoms and related problems in adolescents with ADHD KU Leuven
ADHD is highly prevalent, in adolescence daily life problems and comorbidity steeply increase. Up to 75% of the adolescents experience sleep problems casually related to increased ADHD symptom impairment, oppositional, depressive symptomatology and functional impairments. Most common sleep difficulties are insomnia, daytime sleepiness, nocturnal awakenings and nonrestorative sleep, often accompanied by inadequate sleep hygiene and/or spending ...